* Dark Star, a malevolent artifact in the video game Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

Super Mario Kart features eight playable characters from the Mario series – Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong Jr., Koopa Troopa and Toad.

The cast is made up of the same characters from Mario Kart 64 ( Mario, Luigi, Peach, Yoshi, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Wario and Toad ).

Their abundant inter-war Italian counterparts included, among others, Carlo Galeffi, Giuseppe Danise, Enrico Molinari, Umberto Urbano, Cesare Formichi, Luigi Montesanto, Apollo Granforte, Benvenuto Franci, Renato Zanelli ( who switched to tenor roles in 1924 ), Mario Basiola, Giovanni Inghilleri, Carlo Morelli ( the Chilean-born younger brother of Renato Zanelli ) and Carlo Tagliabue.

In Mario Bros., Shellcreepers could only be defeated by hitting the platform on which they were stood from underneath, thus flipping them on their backs allowing Mario or Luigi to kick them off the screen.

Mario Kart 64 was one of the first games in the series to feature Charles Martinet as the voice of both Luigi and Wario.

In this game, Mario is portrayed as an Italian-American plumber who, along with his brother Luigi, has to defeat creatures that have been coming from the sewers below New York.

Mario Bros. features two plumbers, Mario and Luigi, having to investigate the sewers of New York after strange creatures have been appearing down there.

Fireballs either bounce around the screen or travel directly from one side to the other, and Slipices can freeze platforms, causing Mario and Luigi to skid.

The Super Mario Advance releases and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga all featured the same version of Mario Bros ..

The game centers on the quest of Mario and Luigi to save the rulers of seven kingdoms from Bowser, the series ' antagonist.

Super Mario Bros. 3 is a two-dimensional platform game in which the player controls the on-screen protagonist ( either Mario or Luigi ) from a third-person perspective.

Mario and Luigi embark on a mission on behalf of Princess Toadstool to stop Bowser and his children — the Koopalings — from terrorizing the kings of seven regions in the Mushroom World.

Super Mario Bros. 3 includes a multiplayer option which allows two players to cooperatively play the game by taking turns at navigating the overworld map and accessing stage levels ; the first player controls Mario, while the other controls Luigi.

The game was a launch title for the GameCube, the only launch title in the Mario series where Luigi is the main protagonist, instead of Mario.

But then, Mario Lanza was no common singer, and his whole career, public and non-public, was studded with the kind of unconventional happenings that terminate with the appearance of his first `` recital '' only when he has ceased to be a living voice.

In 1973 Chemists Frank Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina, then at the University of California, Irvine, began studying the impacts of CFCs in the Earth's atmosphere.

Stott Despoja was born in Adelaide, the daughter of Shirley Stott, an Australian-born journalist with English heritage, and Mario Despoja, an immigrant from Croatia ( then Yugoslavia ).

The Red Brigades then operated some high-profile political kidnappings ( e. g., Genoa judge Mario Sossi ) and kidnapped industrialists ( e. g., Vallarino Gancia ) in order to obtain ransom money which ( together with bank robberies ) were their main source of income.

Mario Moretti then shot him eleven times in the chest.

However, every game since then has stated her as being a female, the reasoning behind this is likely that the ending of the game revealed that Mario had been dreaming, therefore the game doesn't necessarily play into other elements of the series.

Ambassador Mario Boffo noted, though, that " if things remain as they are, then tomorrow or the day after we will return to normality.

The team then created a perfect PC port of Super Mario Bros. 3 in a week and approached Nintendo with their creation, who declined to enter the PC market at that time, but did congratulate the team for their efforts.

The NES version was ported twice to the Game Boy Advance: first in 2004 as one of thirty games in the Classic NES Series ( known as the Famicom Mini Series in Japan ), then bundled with a version of the Puzzle League series in 2005 under the title Dr. Mario & Puzzle League.

It is then revealed that Rynn's " father " was actually Mario wearing a latex mask.

In Sassari, with the painter Mario Delitala, also from Orani, Nivola had his artistic start, and soon the two worked together for the decoration of some spaces in the local university. He then moved to the Italian mainland, and in 1931 entered the ISIA, the state institute for Artistic Industry in Monza, near Milan.

Mario Lemieux also then announced retirement due to health-related issues.

The shell can then be kicked, causing it to slide quickly along a platform, defeating any enemy in its path ( or Mario, should he stand in its way ).

Since then, both Koopas and Paratroopas have appeared, either playable or not, in a vast number of spin-off games in the series, and Koopa shells have become popularized as a weapon by the Mario Kart series ( often mistakenly referred to as " turtle shells ").

The events leading to Luigi's creation began in 1982, during the development of Donkey Kong, where the Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto had created Mario ( then known as " Jumpman ") hoping that he would be able to recast the character in a variety of different roles in future games.

Since then, with the exceptions of Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Super Smash Bros. Melee, Luigi has consistently had a medium-pitched voice.

Mario and Peach then get the Grand Star, before the Comet Observatory from the first Super Mario Galaxy shows up, and Rosalina is heard thanking Mario for watching over the Luma that he had found.

He then appeared in the Super Mario Bros. 3 OVA films.

Koopa is killed in the climax when Mario and Luigi devolve him first into a Tyrannosaurus Rex and then into primordial slime.

Since then he has starred in his own series of games, starting with 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and remains an important character in the spin-off games of the Mario series, having since been replaced by Bowser as Mario's arch nemesis.

The original Donkey Kong ( later established to be a younger version of Cranky Kong from the Donkey Kong Country series ) made his first appearance as the titular character of the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong alongside protagonist Mario ( then known as " Jumpman ") and damsel in distress, the Lady ( later renamed Pauline ).

After another boss battle against a bow-like creature named Bowyer, who is turning everyone in the nearby Rose Town to stone, Geno then joins Mario and tells him that the Star Piece is a part of the shattered Star Road, where he resides.

Director Fred Zinneman commented that "... the legend about a horse's head having been cut off is pure invention, a poetic license on the part of Mario Puzo who wrote The Godfather.

In Super Mario Galaxy, an image of his head appears as a wooden planet that Mario can visit in the Space Junk Galaxy.

He appeared yet again in the role of a villain in the Japan-only puzzle game Mario & Wario in 1993, where he drops a bucket on top of either Mario, Princess Peach, or Yoshi's head.

Princess Peach lands on an island beside Delfino Plaza on her feet, but on the same island, Mario gets his head stuck in the sand, but gets out.

Initially, Nintendo planned to package Super Mario Land with the Game Boy, but decided to package Tetris instead at the insistence of Henk Rogers, who convinced Nintendo of America head Minoru Arakawa that a Mario title would only sell the Game Boy to young boys instead of everyone.

The artist Mario Rendon, head of the Instituto Universitario de las Bellas Artes in Colima, Mexico, was selected to sculpt the statue.

Ríos Montt's brother Mario is a Catholic bishop, and in 1998 succeeded the assassinated Bishop Juan Gerardi as head of the human rights commission uncovering the truth of the disappearances associated with the military and his brother.

In a 1994 postseason game, Ainge rifled an inbounding pass at the head of Houston Rockets guard Mario Elie, striking him in the face, snapping his neck back.

The Chancellor of the kingdom is its head of government in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

* Koji Kondo, head composer for the Mario series of video games.

After Norris ' partner, Jack Mario, arrives, the scattered doll parts attack Mario at the instructions of Chucky's screaming, severed head.

The network included Mario Scaramella, arrested in December 2006, the head of SISMI Nicolò Pollari, n ° 2 of SISMI Marco Mancini ( both indicted in the Imam Rapito affair ), as well as Robert Seldon Lady, CIA station chief in Milan, also indicted in the Imam Rapito affair.

In 1938 he took over as the head of the Department of chemical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano university, in a somewhat controversial manner, when his predecessor Mario Giacomo Levi was forced to step down because of racial laws against Jews being introduced in Fascist Italy.

" Baby Bowser ( character ) | Bowser " from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island ( 1995 ), after whom Jr. is modeled. Bowser Jr. is a yellow-skinned Koopa similar to his father, Bowser, with the same yellow and tan skin complexion, as well as a light green head and a tuft of red hair.

Sasso was reputed to be ready to head up New York Governor Mario Cuomo's presidential campaign had Cuomo run in 1992, but Cuomo declined to enter the race.

Mario Griffin Cubas, new head coach for Olimpia, led the club to its first league title.

The head is largely believed to have belonged to Mario Rios.

For the 2006 – 2007 season, Mario Beretta, who led Parma in the previous season, was appointed as new head coach.

Following Vincent's departure, assistant coach Mario Durocher took over the role of head coach and general manager.